Word: overflow
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Classrooms frequently overflow during shopping period, as many classes attract more students than they predicted. However common, each of these occurrences may be in violation of Cambridge building code and fire safety regulations...
...sluices; its ultimate solution, the Three Gorges Dam, is now under construction upriver in Sichuan province. Yet even that grand ambition?turning the upper Yangtze into the world's biggest reservoir?probably won't stop downstream flooding in Hunan, which has four major rivers of its own that often overflow their banks...
...Floods At least 205 people died and hundreds are missing in floods that struck northern China. In the worst-affected area, a normally arid region south of the city of Xian, nearly a meter of rain fell in just two days. Torrential rains triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow their banks. More than 3.6 million hectares of farmland have been inundated in the flooding. NEW ZEALAND Snap Election Prime Minister Helen Clark called an election for 27 July, two months before the end of her government's three-year term. Despite the Labour Party's long lead in opinion...
Summers told the overflow crowd of graduates-to-be to embrace their individuality, find a calling and—if they want to receive diplomas tomorrow—pay their phone bills and return their stolen dishes...
Moreover, while the Yard was primarily inhabited by first-years, about 200 upperclass students lived in Canaday Hall, which then served as overflow housing, and had to commute to their dining halls...